With their proud commitment to arrested adolescence…blink-182 reached deep into their collective id for blissfully stupid world not yet colonized by adult responsibilities…Yet, for all its infantilism, blink-182 served to perpetuate rock’s long-standing purpose of pissing parents off, the mission of its subversive youth humor since Chuck Berry and the Coasters released their generation gap anthems in the mid-1950s. (ibid, 271)